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...premiere of "Owen Wingrave" comes during a period of revival for Henry James, marked by new collections edited by Philip Rahv and Professor Matthiessen, and by the latter's analysis of four Jamesian novels in his book, "The Major Phase." In the light of Time magazine's recent, generally accepted comment ("James' stories are meant for slow reading. A little of them goes a long way. Condensed, mellow, with their felicitous phrases and generous perceptions woven unobtrusively into the slow, deliberate prose, they have a flavor that no other fiction possesses."), considerable interest has focussed on the ability of James...
...GREAT SHORT NOVELS OF HENRY JAMES-edited by Philip Rahv- Dial Press...
Without Communist support, Rahv and Phillips' Partisan Review quickly withered...
...that time Dwight Macdonald had belatedly capitulated to the Depression's reddest virus, become an apostate from business and grown a (small) Trotsky ite beard. He took up with anti-Stalinists Rahv, Phillips and Dupee. Into the picture, as angel, swam George Lovett Kingsland Morris, who had spent his time collecting and even painting abstract art. Result: the rebirth in December 1937 of Partisan Review, as a vigorously, snobbishly radical and experimentalist literary monthly (later quarterly, now six times a year) which snubbed Dictator Joe Stalin, smiled kindly at Comrade Leon Trotsky...
...enthusiastically surgical criticism (Rahv, Dupee, Edmund Wilson), such a magazine certainly keeps a few (circulation: 2,000) U. S. eyes peeled for the new and elsewhere unrecognized forms of excellence toward which it is receptive-though faintly proprietary. However, though Partisan Review editorially reflects a highly doctrinaire sense of the world, it rarely reflects a humane knowledge of the U. S. west of Newark, N. J. But its editors have the courage to take life hard, and sometimes even acknowledge that their convictions are not immutable. "There are more and more things in the world," says Editor Macdonald now, with...